The ethereal Almendres Cromlech, an open-air, oval complex made up of close to 100 granite stones, is believed to have served as a primitive astronomical observatory, possibly for a solar cult as well as a gathering place for celebrating the cycles of nature.

Mid-morning heat is baking the hill as we begin the short but steep climb from the information centre along the road near the village of Dolni Glavanak, about 36km from the town of Harmanli, up a gravel path to Cromlech, which signboards (in Bulgarian and English) describe as the "Bulgarian Stonehenge".

Margaret Linley asserts that Tennyson's framing poems argue that "To be 'loyal to the royal' in the self, then, is to participate in the process of dissolving conventional constraints of the material [and] timebound." (34) Thus, Tennyson rejects limiting his Arthur to any local, provincial tradition that "cleaves to cairn and cromlech still" ("To the Queen," l.

He is said to have lived in a cromlech near Lambourn, Berkshire, since called Wayland Smith's Cave, and legend relates that, if a traveler tied up his horse there, left sixpence for a fee, and retired from sight, he would find the horse shod on his return.

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